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MANUSCRI PES: 


TO BE SOLD 


TUESDAY, JANUARY 25th, 1916 
AT THREE IN THE AFTERNOON 


AMERICAN ART GALLERIES 


MADISON SQUARE SOUTH 
NEW YORK 


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BEGINNING SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 1916 
AND CONTINUING UNTIL THE TIME OF SALE 


THE DRAWINGS, PAINTINGS 
MANUSCRIPTS 


CONTRIBUTED BY FAMOUS MEN AND WOMEN TO 
‘THE BOOK OF THE HOMELESS” 
COMPILED BY 
MRS. WHARTON 


TO BE SOLD 


TUESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1916 
AT THREE O’CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON 


By MR. THOMAS E. KIRBY, or 


THE AMERICAN ART ASSOCIATION 


AMERICAN ART GALLERIES 
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SALE TUESDAY AFTERNOON 
JANUARY 25, 1916 


AT THE AMERICAN ART GALLERIES 


BEGINNING AT THREE 0’CLOCK 


There will be on sale during the exhibition copies of THE 
BOOK OF THE HOMELESS (Le Livre des Sans-Foyer). Ed- 
ited by Edith Wharton. New York and London, MDCCCCXVI. 


BAKST, LEON 


(Water Color) 

Height, 12 inches; width, 914 inches. 
Figure of a woman dancing. 
Signed at the lower right: Bakst, 1915. 
Reproduced in “The Book of the Homeless.” 


BARRES, MAURICE 


Z 2—ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT 
Signed in full. Five pages, folio. 


“I’m not fond of telling this story, said the General, because 
each time, like the old fool I am, it brings tears to my 
eye * * * but the best of France is in it. * * * In each of our 
hearts there was a prayer for France,” etc. 


Original and translation, printed on pages 59- 
63 inclusive, “The Book of the Homeless.” 


BEERBOHM, MAX 


Va 


¢ 0 3—A GRACIOUS ACT 
(Caricature) 


Height, 12 inches; width, 8 inches. eae 
: 5 ) ray Ke 


Lord Curzon of Kedleston reading to_ M. ‘Cam- : 
maerts, a translation (signed by his own ge oo 
a poem by M. Cammaerts. 


BERNHARDT, SARAH 
¢ 4 ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT — 
A Signed in full,—“Une Promesse,”—1 page, 8yo. 


“Children of Flanders, dry your tears! * * * Stout hearts _ 
‘of brave men, shall strive together till the vanquished foes 
has given you back your homes!” ni Ane 


Original and translation printed on page 64, 
“The Book of the Homeless.” ae 


BESNARD, A. FRENCH ie 
(/ 5—THE FORGE meee 
Ra (Water Color) ee 


Height, 141, inches; width, 1014 inches. 


Silhouetted against the forge, a man is facing ea 
the left. Another at the forge is working the Mes 
bellows. ey 


Signed at the lower left: A. Besnard. 


BINYON, LAURENCE 


46 6—ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH 
MANUSCRIPT POEM 


“The Orphans of Flanders.” Six four-line stan- 
zas, signed in full, 1 page, 8vo. 

“Where is the land that fathered, nourished, poured 

The sap of a strong race into your veins,— 


Land of wide tilth, of farms and granaries stored, 
And old towers chiming over peaceful plains?” ete. 


Printed on page 38, “The Book of the Home- 


less.”’ 


BLANCHE, JACQUES-EMILE 


7 %—ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT 
40 “Christmas, 1914,’”—-signed. 'T'wo pages, folio. 


“The letters of the soldiers with their odours of tobacco 
and leather, seem to us to have arrived from a far off land. 
We hold these letters respectfully in our hands, before 
reading them we feel and smell the paper on which they 
have been written, as if they were still damp from the con- 
tact of their writer’s hand, who may be lying dead at pres- 


ent,” etc. 
¥, BLANCHE, JACQUES-EMILE 
0 8—PORTRAIT OF IGOR STRAVINSKY 
VY (Oil Painting) 
nV. Height, 29 inches; width, 20 inches. 


A full length portrait, with head partly turned 
to the right. 


Signed at the lower left: Igor Stravinsky; J. E. Blanche. 
Reproduced in “The Book of the Homeless.” 


BLASHFIELD, EDWIN. HOWL ND 


AMERICAN: ConTEMPORARY | = * 


f . $ a x 
(2 9—A WOMAN'S HEAD =) =e — 
(Charcoal Drawing) oa 


Height, 26 inches; width, 20 inches. 


Body partly facing the spectator antes head 
to the right in ee a a i ‘ae 


BONNAT, LEON 


Prenco’ 


Sake and Ink) 


( / -10—PEGASUS 


f Height, 10 inches; ee 8 thehen! 


% 


A winged horse with rider, bearing a tore h in 
his right hand. a ee 


ve BOURGET, PAUL 
0 
LS 11—ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT 
Signed in full,—‘“‘Aprés un An,”—1 page, folio. 


“During the first days of August, 1915, I found myself 
motoring in one of the central provinces of France. I had 
crossed the same region in the same way just a year before, 
when the beginning of mobilization was crowding the roads 
with waggons, with artillery and with marching troops. 
Only one year! How many men are dead since! * * * But 
the high resolve of the nation is as firm as it was then, when 
all through the land there was only one impulse—to go 
forward. The willingness to fight and to endure has not 
grown less.” etc. 


Original and translation printed on pages 65- 
69 inclusive, “The Book of the Homeless.” 


CLAUDEL, PAUL 


12—ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT 


Signed i in full,—Le Précieux Sang Pees Piecious 
Blood), 4 pages, 4to. 


“Oh, what if Thou, that for a cup of water promisest 
The illimitable sea,” etc. 


Original and translation printed on pages 5-7 
inclusive, “The Book of the Homeless.”’ 


COCTEAU, JEAN 


fe 
46 ~ -18--ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT 


Signed in full,—*La Mort des Jeunes Gens de la 
Divine Hellade’”’ (How Young Men Died in Hel- 
las), 4 pages, 4to. | 


“Antigone went wailing to the dust. 

She reverenced not the face of Death like these 
To whom it came as no enfeebling peace 

But a command relentless and august,” etc. 


Original and translation printed on pages 9- 
13, inclusive, “The Book of the Homeless.” 


COCTEAU, JEAN 


€ ve 14—PHOTOGRAPH OF JEAN COCTEAU 


1, After the painting by Léon Bakst. 


Reproduced in “The Book of the Homeless.” 


ag wat ¢ ys ae ie 


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15—ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT 


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CONRAD, JOSEPH 


Signed in full,—‘tPoland Revisited,’”—79 pages, 
folio and 8vo. 


“TJ have never believed in political assassination as a means 
to an end, and least of all if the assassination is of the 
dynastic order. I don’t know how far murder can ever 
approach the efficiency of a fine art, but looked upon with 
the cold eye of reason it seems but a crude expedient 
either of impatient hope or hurried despair,” etc. 


Then follows a graphic account of the writer’s crossing the 
Nerth Sea, a visit to Cracow, etc., such as only Conrad 
can give. 


Printed on pages 71-97 inclusive, “The Book 
of the Homeless.”’ 


DAGNAN-BOUVERET, P. A. J. 


16—BRITTANY WOMAN 


(Crayon Drawing) 


Height, 17 inches; width, 12 inches. 


Three-quarter length figure, seated in a chair. 
White cap and collar, and black apron. 


Signed at the lower right: P. A. J. Dagnan-B. 
Reproduced in “The Book of the Homeless.” 


D’'INDY, VINCENT 


/ 


n° 17—ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT 


Signed in full,—Musical Score: “La Légende de 
Saint Christophe” (Acte I, Sc. III). 


Reproduced on page 55, in “The Book of the Homeless.” 


D’'INDY, VINCENT 


0 / 18—PHOTOGRAPH OF VINCENT D INDY 
| After the painting by Theo. Van Rysselberghe. 


Reproduced in “The Book of the Homeless.” 


DUSE, ELEONORA 


19—ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT 


/ 
y Signed in full,—Liberta nella Vita,” (The Right 
to Liberty), 2 pages, 8vo. 
“* * * Through all this sorrow in the world, through all 


these young lives cut short, may victory bring to every 
land the crown of life—the right to Liberty.” 


Original and translation printed on page 98, 
“The Book of the Homeless.” 


ta GALSWORTHY, JOHN 


|"  20—ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT 


Signed in full,—“‘Harvest,” 6 pages, 4to. 


“The sky tonight looks as if a million bright angels were 
passing—a gleaming cloud-mesh drawn across the heavens,” 
etc. 


Printed on pages 99-100, “The Book of the 
Homeless.” 


wg GAY, WALTER 


| 7 21—INTERIOR 


(Water Color) 


Height, 2114 inches; width, 18 inches. 


Corner of a room, showing a French commode 
upon which stand five pieces of blue and white 
porcelain. 


. Signed at the upper right: Walter Gay. 
: Reproduced in “The Book of the Homeless.” 


GEROME, JEAN LEON 


, J Frencu: 1824—1904 


\ 22—TURKISH SOLDIER 
(Pencil Drawing) 


Height, 13 inches; width, 9 inches. 


A Turkish soldier, of upper Egypt, in an attitude 
of prayer. 


Signed at the lower right: J. L. Géréme, 1857. 
Reproduced in “The Book of the Homeless.” 


GIBSON, CHARLES DANA 


AMERICAN: CONTEMPORARY 
y) 23—THE GIRL HE LEFT BEHIND HIM 
| 0 | (Pen and Ink Drawing) 
Height, 23 inches; width, 18 inches. 


Half length figure of a girl seated, writing. 


Signed: C. D. Gibson. 
Reproduced in “The Book of the Homeless.” 


caine 7 


GOSSE, EDMUND 


a 


| cf 24—_ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT 


Signed in full,—The Arrogance and Servility of 
Germany,’”—6 pages, 4to. 


“We abound, while the war progresses, with examples of 
calculated ferocity of the Germans, of their lack of human- 
ity, of their scorn of the generous convention of behaviour. 
But there is a great danger that on reflection, we may be 
tempted to regard these developments of savagery as due 
to the fact of war itself, to a sudden madness of blood- 
lust,” ete. 


Printed on pages 101-104 inclusive, ‘The 
Book of the Homeless.” 


| ya GRANT, ROBERT 


od 25—ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT 
POEM 


Signed in full—‘‘*A Message.” Five _ six-line 
stanzas. ‘Iwo pages, 4to. 


“This is our gift to the Homeless, 
What shall it bear from me 

Safe in a land that prospers 
Girded by leagues of sea?— 

Tear moistened words of pity, 
Bountiful sympathy,” etc. 


Printed on pages 14-15, “The Book of the 
Homeless.” 


( y HARDY, THOMAS 


"y 26—ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT 
POEM 


Signed in full,—‘‘Cry of the Homeless.” Three, 
eight-line stanzas, 1 page, 4to. 


“Instigator of the ruin— 
Whichsoever thou mayst be 


Of the mastering minds of Europe 
That contrived our misery— 

Hear the wormwood-worded greeting 
From each city, shore, and lea 

Of thy victims: 

‘Enemy, all Hail to thee!,” etc. 


Printed on page 16, “The Book of the Home- 


less.”’ 


HARDY, THOMAS 


es 


0 27—PHOTOGRAPH OF THOMAS HARDY 


After the painting by Jacques-Emile Blanche. 


Reproduced in “The Book of the Homeless.” 


HERVIEU, PAUL 


28—ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT 


Signed in full,—“**Science et Conscience,” 4 pages, 
8vo. ; 


“Tt will be left to our descendants to realize that the 
chief significance of this European conflict: lies in its mark- 
ing the moment when Science failed in her misson * * * 
The power whch, one year ago, feared neither heaven nor 
hell, felt instantly and must ever feel the avenging and 
triumphant assault of all the consciences of humanity— 
enemy, neutral, and even subject to itself,” etc. 


Original and translation printed on pages 105- 
108 inclusive, ““The Book of the Homeless.” 


HOWELLS, WILLIAM DEAN 


29—ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH 
MANUSCRIPT POEM 


Signed,—““The Little Children,”’—fourteen lines, 
1 page, folio. 


“<Suffer little children to come unto me,’ 
Christ said, and answering with infernal glee, 
‘Take them!’ the arch-fiend scoffed, and from the tot- 
tering walls 
Of their wrecked homes, and from the cattle’s stalls,” ete. 


Printed on page 17, “The Book of the Home- 


less.” 


We HUMBERT, GENERAL 


3° 30—ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT 


“Les Arabes Avaient Raison” (An Heroic Stand). 
—Signed “Humbert,” 3 pages, 8vo. 


“On the 28th of August, 1914, after a hard-fought battle, 
the First Moroccan Division drove the enemy back from — 
La Fosse a lEau, in the direction of Thin-le-Moutiers. | 
* * * Those who saw the battle said it was Homeric. — 
Overwhelmed by superior numbers, crushed by artillery, 
the battalion at first fought where it stood, and then, en- 
veloped on both wings, fell back step by step, Sercey 
contesting every inch of ground,” ete. 


Original and translation printed on pages 109- 
113 inclusive, ‘“The Book of the Homeless.” 


WA JAMES, HENRY 


0 31—TYPEWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT 


0 7 
¢ Signed in full,—‘*The Long Wards,”—with auto- 
graph annotations, 21 pages, 4to. ; 


“There comes back to me out of the distant past an im- 
pression of the citizen soldier at once in his collective 
grouping and in his impaired, his more or less war-worn 
state, which was to serve me for long years as the most 
intimate vision of him that my span of life was likely to | 
disclose! 15) ee 
It was early, it must have been very early, in our Civil 
War, yet not so early but that a large number of those 
who had answered President Lincoln’s first call for an 
army had had time to put in their short period (the first 
term was so short then, as was the first number), and 
reappear again in camp, * * * under what seemed to me 
at the hour, that of a splendid autumn afternoon, the 
thickest mantle of heroic history,” etc. 


Printed on pages 115-125, “The Book of the 
Homeless.” 


? a * ss SAMES, HENRY 


82 PHOTOGRAPH OF HENRY JAMES 
Batter te painting by John Singer Sargent, R.A. 


" is 
a - 


eo 


ib; _ Reproduced in “The Book of the Homeless.” 


ar; AMMES, FRANCIS 


s 88 ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT 


; ae Signed i in- full »>—‘‘Epitaphe.” One page, folio. 


“Here “such an-one lies dead for France. His trade 
To push a barrow stocked with thread, -cheese, salt 
From town to town, under the azure vault, 

Through endless corridors of rustling shade,” etc. 


Original and translation printed on pages 18- 
19, “The Book of the Homeless.” 


JOFFRE, GENERAL 


See NAL AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT 


et. Signed in full. One page, 8vo, dated August 18, 
1915. 


“The United States of America have never forgotten that 
the first page of the history of their independence was 
partly written in French blood. 

Inexhaustibly generous and _ profoundly sympathetic, 
these same United States now bring aid and solace to 
France in the hour of her struggle for liberty.” 


Original and translation printed on page 28 
of introduction, “The Book of the Homeless.” 


MAETERLINCK, MAURICE 


$ 35—ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT 
\ Signed in full,—‘*‘Notre Héritage,”—2 pages, 8vo. 


“If our vision could open on that unseen world which 
dominates us from all sides, we should unquestionably 
learn that on the battlefields there can be no loss. The 
heritage which our splendid soldiers yield up in dying is 
bequeathed to us; and when they perish for our sakes, 


they give us their lives in no metaphoric, roundabout 
sense, but really and directly,” ete. 


Original and translation printed on pages 
127-128, *“*The Book of the Homeless.” 


MARTIN, E. S. 


4 ps 36—ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT 


. 


Signed,—*‘We Who Afar Off,”—nine pages, 8vo. 


“I, skeptic though I am, am like every Englishman, a mys- 
tic,” ete. 


MENARD, EMILE RENE 
FRENCH 


a 387—NUDE FIGURE 
¢ 9) : (Crayon Sketch) 


Height, 18 inches; width, 18 inches. 


x 


Nude figure of a woman picking fruit, with back 
facing the spectator. 


Signed at lower left: EZ. R. Ménard. 
Reproduced in “The Book of the Homeless.” 


MEYNELL, ALICE 


48 38—ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH 
MANUSCRIPT POEM 


“In Sleep.” Four four-line stanzas, signed in 
full. One page, 4to. 


“I dreamt (no ‘dream’ awake-—dream indeed) 

A Wrathful man was talking in the Park: 

“Where are the Higher Powers who know our need, 
Yet leave us in the dark?” etc. 


Printed on page 20, “The Book of the Home- 
less.” 


t 


MONET, CLAUDE 
va Frencu: 1840— 
0 0 
ik 39—_LANDSCAPE 
| (Pastel) 


Height, 814 inches; width, 16% inches. 


Showing the green pastures, and two out buildings 
of a large farm. 


Signed at lower left: Cl. Monet. 
Reproduced in “The Book of the Homeless.” 


V) - 
nv \ 


MONET, CLAUDE 
Frencu: 1840— 


40—BOATS ON A BEACH 


(Crayon Drawing) 


Height, 6 inches; width, 12 inches. 


Two fishing boats huddled together on the edge 
of the beach. To the left, a cliff. 


Signed at lower left: Cl. Monet. 
Reproduced in “The Book of the Homeless.” 


MOORE, GEORGE 


/ 41—PHOTOGRAPH OF GEORGE MOORE 


After the painting by Jacques-Emile Blanche. 
Reproduced in “The Book of the Homeless.” 


MORE, PAUL ELMER 


Signed in full,—‘*‘A Monument of Tragic Purga- 


¢ Ve 42-—ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT 


tion.”” Ten pages, 4to. 


“So, for instance, the very day that brought me the re- 
quest to contribute to the Belgian relief I was reading 
the story of Iphigenia, sacrificed in order that the Greek 
army might sail from Aulis and reach its destination: 


‘O father! were the tongue of Orpheus mine, 
To charm the stones with song to follow me’,” ete. 


Printed on pages 133-188 inclusive, “The Book 
of the Homeless.” 


oe legions. camped upon the plains of night, 
‘ute watchful hosts of heaven, what must you say 
¥ When: men gevor each other in their might?” etc. 


~~ —— 


oxo tial and translation Ruption on nese 21- 
: 22, eS Book of the Homeless.” 


“Two Songs of a Year: 1914-1915. I. Children’s 
_ Kisses. II. The Sans-Foyer.” Five pages, folio. 
“So; it is nightfall then, 

~~. - The valley flush 


That beckoned home the way for herds and men 
Is hardly spent: 


Down the bright pathway winds, through veils of hush 
And wonderment. 

Unuttered yet the chime 

That tells of folding-time;” etc. 


Printed on pages 23-25, “The Book of the 
Homeless.” 


PERRY, LILLA CABOT 


Ze 


O 45—ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH 
Vv MANUSCRIPT POEM 


“Rain in Belgium,”—signed in full. ‘Twenty lines, 
one page, 4to. 


“The heavy rain falls down, falls down, 

On city streets whence all have fled, 

Where tottering ruins skyward frown 
Above the staring silent dead. 

Here shall ye raise your Kaiser’s throne, 
Stained with the blood for freedom shed.” ete. 


Printed on page 26, “The Book of the Home- 


less.” 


REGNIER, HENRY DE 


ye 46—ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH 
0 MANUSCRIPT POEM 


“L’Exilé,’—signed in full. 


Thirty-six lines, two 
pages, 4to. 


“We ask no pity, though your bread we share. 
For he who, flying from the fate of slaves 
With brow indignant and with empty hand, 
Has left his house, his country and his graves, 
Comes like a Pilgrim from the Holy Land. 
Receive him thus, if in his blood there be 
One drop of Belgium’s immortality,” etc. 


Original and translation printed on pages 27- 
29, “The Book of the Homeless.” 


RENOIR, PIERRE-AUGUSTE 


“4 Frencu: 1841— 


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he 47—PORTRAIT OF HIS SON 
(Charcoal Drawing) 


Height, 12 inches; width, 9 inches. 


Half length portrait of his son in uniform, 
wounded in the war. 


Signed at the lower right. 
Reproduced in “The Book of the Homeless.’ 


RODIN, AUGUSTE 


FrencuH: CoNTEMPORARY 
¢ 48—TWO WOMEN 
(, (Water Color) 


Height, 1214 inches; width, 9 inches. 


Two half nude figures of women, seated facing to 
the right. 


Signed at the lower center: Aug. Rodin. 


Reproduced in “The Book of the Homeless.” ; 


| 


7h ROOSEVELT, THEODORE 


0 
| é 49—ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT 


0 


Signed in full. Two pages, 4to, being the intro- 
duction to “The Book of the Homeless.” 


“It is not only a pleasure but a duty to write the intro- 
duction which Mrs. Wharton requests for ‘The Book of 
the Homeless. At the outset of this war I said that 
hideous though the atrocities had been and dreadful 
though the suffering, yet we must not believe that these 
atrocities and this suffering paralleled the dreadful con- 
dition that had obtained in European warfare during, 
for example, the seventeenth century. It is lamentable to 
have to confess that I was probably in error. The 
fate that has befallen Belgium is as terrible as any that 
befell the countries of Middle Europe during the Thirty 
Years’ War and the wars of the following half-century,” 
etc. 


ROSTAND, EDMOND 


Wa 50—ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH 
MANUSCRIPT POEM 


“Horreur et Beauté,”—signed in full. Four four- 
line stanzas, one page, 4to. 


“Gashed hands of children who cry out for bread— 
While as the flames from sacred places rise 

The Blonde Beast, hideous, with blood-shot eyes 
And obscene gesture mutilates the dead—” ete. 


Original and translation printed on page 30, 
“The Book of the Homeless.” 


sac 
+ 


SAR GENT, ‘JOHN SINGER, R.A. 


ee; Mire be 


(Pen Drawing) 
pe ‘10 inches; width, 14 inches 


(igo 
One | in | profile, the other facing the spectator. 
‘Signed. at the lower right, John S. Sargent. 


' er oat Pres 
Te praauced in “The Book of the Homeless.” 


a 


STRAVINSKY, IGOR 


es 


52ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH 
ps MANUSCRIPT SCORE 


B@sonvenir d’une Marche Boche,”—signed in full. 
Seven pages, 8vo. 

Printed in full, pages 49-52, in “The Book of 
the Homeless.” 


—_ 


\ 


583—ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH MANUSCR 


54—ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH 


SUARES, ANDRE 


Wi o 
“Chant des Galloises” (Song of the Welsh 
en),—signed in full. Nine pages, Ato. _ 


“Here comes the night, with the storm. Slowly t 
sionate sun goes down; like a wounded man he drag 
self over the hill; swimming in blood he sinks towar 
sea. Soon the divine Hero will be laid on the bed of his 
choice,” ete. a ‘ioe he 


poe and txanslntaee printed on ie EBay, 


THOMAS, EDITH M. 


MANUSCRIPT POEM . 


six-line stanzas, 8vo. 


“On the old gray sea its course it holds, 
Life for the famished is in its gift * * * 
And the children are crowding to kiss its folds, hes 
While the tears of their mothers fall free and swift,— a 
And what of the flag their lips have pressed? Tag cs 
Oh, guard it for ever—That flag is blest,” ete. aire 

Original printed on page 88, “The Book of 
the Homeless.” dis’. 
nal ; = ie } 


ee by the author and a typewrit- 
ae” ere. the poem. 


_ Tuscan sea, panting for pleasure,” etc. _ 


x 2 © tiga aa on pages 34-35, ‘The Book of 
we ‘the Homeless.” 


y 
? 
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| VAN RYSSELBERGHE, THEO. 
j/ 66-2 PORTRAIT OF ANDRE GIDE 
am i (Pencil Drawing) 


Height, 15 inches; width, 12 inches. 


- Head partly turned to the sitter’s right, looking 
directly at the spectator. 


Signed at the lower right: V. R., 1915. 
Reproduced in “The Book of the Homeless.” 


VAN RYSSELBERGHE, THEO. 


57—PORTRAIT OF EMILE VERHAEREN 
(Pencil Drawing) 


Height, 114 inches; width, 614 inches 
The sitter is facing the spectator. 


Signed at the lower right: V. R. 
Reproduced in “The Book of the Homeless.” 


VERHAEREN, EMILE 


58—ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH 
MANUSCRIPT POEM 


“Le Printemps de 1915,’—signed in full. Six, 


four-line stanzas, one page, folio. 


“Sadly your dear voice said: 
Is the old spring-time dead, 
And shall we never see 
New leaves upon the tree? 

* * * * * 
This is the scarlet doom 
By the wild sea-winds hurled 
Over a land of gloom, 
Over a grave-strewn world.” 


Original and translation printed on pages 


37-39, “The Book of the Homeless.” 


* WARD, MRS. HUMPHRY. (MARY A. WARD) 


59—_ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT 


0 “Wordsworth’s Valley in Wartime,’—signed in 
|o full. Six pages, 4to. 


“August 8th, 1915. It is now four days since, in this vil- 
lage of Grasmere, at my feet, we attended one of those 
| anniversary meetings, marking the first completed year 
— - of this appalling war, which were being called on that 
E night over the length and breadth of England. Our meet- 

ing was held in the village schoolroom; the farmers, trades- 
men, innkeeper and summer visitors of Grasmere were 
present, and we passed the resolution which all England 
was passing at the same moment, pledging ourselves, sep- 
arately and collectively, to help the war and continue 
the war, till the purposes of England were attained, by 
the liberation of Belgium and northern France, and the 
chastisement of Germany * * * But this year there are 
no Americans, there are few visitors, indeed, of any kind 
| as yet, though the coaches are beginning to bring them— 
1 scantily. But Grasmere does not distress itself as it would 
; in other years, Wordsworth’s village is thinking too much 
about the war,” etc. 


i | Printed on pages 151-155, “The Book of the 
ae Homeless.” 


WENDELL, BARRETT 


1915. Four lines signed in full, 12mo. Also an 
autograph letter, signed, two pages, August 20, 
1915, regarding the poem. 


| 2: ( a4 60—ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH POEM 


. “Though desolation stain their foiled advance, 

In ashen ruins hearth-stones linger whole: 

Do what they may they cannot master France; 
Do what they can, they cannot quell the soul.” 


Printed on page 40, “The Book of the Home- 
less.” 


WHARTON, EDITH 


4S 61—ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT POEM 


“The Tryst,’—signed in full, three pages, folio. 


“TI said to the woman: Whence do you come, 
With your bundle in your hand? 

She said; In the North I made my home, 
Where slow streams fatten the fruitful loam, 
And the endless wheat-fields run like foam 
To the edge of the endless sand. 


* * * * * * * % * 


My house is ill to find, she said, 

For it has no roof but the sky; 

The tongue is torn from the steeple-head, 

The streets are foul with the slime of the dead, 
And all the rivers run poison red 

With the bodies drifting by,” etc. 


Printed on pages 41 and 42, “The Book of 
the Homeless.” : 


= WOODS, MARGARET L. 


/- 62—ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH 
( MANUSCRIPT POEM 


“Hinisterre,”’—signed in full. Six five-line stanzas, 
two pages, 8vo. 


“Oh that on some forsaken strand, 

Long ending or a lonely land, 

On such an eve we two were lying, 

To hear the quiet water sighing 

And feel the coolness of the sand,” ete. 


Printed on pages 43 and 44, “The Book of 


the Homeless.” 


| MANUSCRIPT POEM 


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